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Author:

Lanning, Michael Lee.

Title:

The battle 100 : the stories behind history's most influential battles / by Michael Lee Lanning ; maps by Bob Rosenburgh.

Publisher:

Sourcebooks,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xii, 355 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Battles.
Military history.
Naval history.
Strategy.
Military art and science--History.

Other Authors:

Rosenburgh, Bob.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Yorktown (1781) -- 2. Hastings (1066) 3. Stalingrad (1942 & 43) 4. Leipzig (1813) -- 5. Antietam (1862) -- 6. Cajamarca (1532) -- 7. Atomic bombing of Japan (1945) -- 8. Huai-Hai (1948) -- 9. Waterloo (1815) -- 10. Vienna (1529) -- 11. Zama (202 B.C.) -- 12. Tenochtitlan (1521) -- 13. Normandy (1944) -- 14. Salamis (480 B.C.) -- 15. Saratoga (1777) -- 16. Spanish Armada (1588) -- 17. Gettysburg (1863) -- 18. Arbela-Gaugamela (331 B.C.) -- 19. Mexico City (1847) -- 20. Actium (31 B.C.) -- 21. Mecca (630) -- 22. Moscow (1941) -- 23. San Jacinto (1836) -- 24. Tours (732) -- 25. Indus River (1221) -- 26. Alesia (52 B.C.) -- 27. Sedan (1870) -- 28. Marathon (490 B.C.) -- 29. Quebec (1759) -- 30. Milvian Bridge (312) -- 31. Manzikert (1071) -- 32. San Juan Hill (1898) -- 33. Crecy (1346) -- 34. Tsushima Strait (1905) -- 35. Granada (1491) -- 36. Trafalgar (1805) -- 37. Adrianople (378) -- 38. Marne (1914) -- 39. Chalons (451) -- 40. Britain (1941) -- 41. Constantinople (1453) -- 42. Teutoburger Wald (9) -- 43. Valmy (1792) -- 44. Midway (1942) -- 45. Orleans (1429) -- 46. Manila Bay (1898) -- 47. Kursk (1943) -- 48. Blenheim (1704) -- 49. Vicksburg (1863) -- 50. Plassey (1757) -- 51. Chaeronea (338 B.C.) -- 52. Tet (1968) -- 53. Lepanto (1571) -- 54. Sardis (546 B.C.) -- 55. Poltava (1709) -- 56. Panipat (1526) -- 57. Syracuse (413 B.C.) -- 58. Breitenfeld (1631) -- 59. Metaurus River (207 B.C.) -- 60. Hampton Roads (1862) -- 61. Pydna (168 B.C.) -- 62. Pearl Harbor (1941) -- 63. Tannenberg (1914) -- 64. Dien Bien Phu (1954) -- 65. Poland (1939) -- 66. Leuctra (371 B.C.)-- 67. Carabobo (1821) -- 68. Cerignola (1503)-- 69. Bosworth Field (1485) -- 70. Austerlitz (1805) -- 71. Madrid (1939) -- 72. El Alamein (1942) -- 73. Sadowa (1866) -- 74. Lexington and Concord (1775) -- 75. Golan Heights (1967) -- 76. Inchon (1950) -- 77. Ayacucho (1824) -- 78. Port Arthur (1904) -- 79. Agincourt (1415) -- 80. Yenan (1934) -- 81. Hattin (1187) -- 82. Guadalcanal (1943) -- 83. Naseby (1645) -- 84. Kadesh (c.1290 B.C.) -- 85. Charleston Harbor (1864) -- 86. Desert Storm (1991) -- 87. Kovel-Stanislav (1916) -- 88. Santa Clara (1958) -- 89. Jidda (1925) -- 90. Malplaquet (1709) -- 91. San Pasqual (1846) -- 92. La Bicocca (1522) -- 93. Megiddo (c.1479 B.C.) -- 94. Rocroi (1643) -- 95. Carthage (146 B.C.) -- 96. Thames River (1813) -- 97. Paardeberg (1900) -- 98. Tel-el-Kebir (1882) -- 99. Vyborg (1918) -- 100. Little Big Horn (1876)."

ISBN:

9781570717994
1570717990 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

LCCN:

2002153539

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

RAPD371 -- Jefferson Public Library (Jefferson)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)